![]() Up $11.98 I purchased this album just to have a little novelty music at a party. Didn't expect such great songwriting, production, and musicianship. It's really too bad these guys hit so big with "I'm Too Sexy" because the rest of the album is really catchy pop music that shows this group is serious and talented. This is such a fun record. "Up" is a great title for it, because you'll feel UP when you listen to it. ![]() The Office "That's What She Said" Adult T-Shirt - (Available in Assorted Colors and Sizes), Large, Black $14.99 I love my "Thats What she said" t-shirt. It is a great shirt. Thank you for all your help. Kendall Drive Rocks! I want a size Medium T-shirt. ![]() Because I Said So $2.99 I bought the DVD because I was watching it on TV and lost the last 45 minutes of the film... I enjoyed the movie... Diane Keaton is great, and I love Mandy Moore as well as the actresses that played her sisters... all my favorites. The DVD was in very good quality as proclaimed by seller ![]() Orientalism $16.00 Edward Said, author of one of the greatest books of our time, 'Orientalism', has become some sort of role model in our society. How many scholars since 'Orientalism' have been inspired by his writings? I am not an exception. At least, I felt utterly reassured; after reading it I felt like an academic at Stanford, because it makes you feel like you are an expert on cultural matters too - matters, on which virtually everyone in the world has an opinion on. That said, Said, like Obama or Huntington (all great visionaries and populist writers), despite all their institutional power, nevertheless give you that magnificant and grand illusion that you are one of them (or they one of us, what do you prefer), or at least that we know as much as they do. It confirms the mediocre mind of its hidden, superior intellect. "I knew it all along!" is what I felt, "we created the orient ourselves, that's a no-brainer!". That said, Said, 25 years ago, wrote this manifesto on the violent businesses of mankind, and reserved "Orientalism", this word, the cultural project, this entire classical period, as a brand name for himself. Because of this, the book is predistined to make history (it's already considered a classic), but is all the same just another work of Western progressive scholarship on controlling and patronizing the Middle East. This 25th edition, with the New Preface by the Author, has been revised and refined that many times, and indeed brought to near perfection. It says the Orient doesn't belong to the West... this book, however, does. |
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